After a major snowstorm on Friday and stormcleanup on Saturday i had to go to a farm supply/auto store. It is raining and above zero and i am looking through the aisles wearing my Tourmaster Hi Viz and carrying my hi viz helmet when a guy looks at me and asks " Is the rain hurting the snow?" I did not understand the question so i give him a quizzical look. "The snow...is the rain ruining it for your snowmobile?" he asks.
Told him " I don't know because i don't own a snowmobile." He was confused till i told him i ride bike and then he was just dumbfounded.
My fellow Newfoundlanders just do not get it.

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If I still had every dollar I spent on motorbikes I would be a richer man but a poorer person.

Me too, but Honda called it a motorcycle????
All I'm saying is there are several examples of "motorcycles" that look like scooters.

How about this, looks more like a motorcycle but still step through. BTW, I'd like to have one of these, but still wouldn't know whether to call it a scooter or motorcycle. It had a low range in the transmission, how cool is that.

Theres actually a designation for these, I dont know if it's used for legal stuff but step-through frame and footpegs is an underbone

...one of these, but still wouldn't know whether to call it a scooter or motorcycle...

In Australia that's neither a motorcycle nor a scooter, it's a Postie Bike.

In fact the national new motorcycle sales statistics explicitly exclude postie bikes while including everything else on two wheels from scooters to enormous tourers simply because Australia Post buys so many of them that they would completely distort the picture of what Australian motorcyclists buy.

In Australia that's neither a motorcycle nor a scooter, it's a Postie Bike.

In fact the national new motorcycle sales statistics explicitly exclude postie bikes while including everything else on two wheels from scooters to enormous tourers simply because Australia Post buys so many of them that they would completely distort the picture of what Australian motorcyclists buy.

Problem solved...

The only Postie I ever saw was Nathans and he had so much crap hanging off it you could hardly see the bike. Amazing he was able to ride that thing so far.

The only questions I ever get asked either go like this:
Them:"How old is your bike?"
Me: "about 3 years now."
Them: "30 years? Looks good for that old."
Me: "No, 3 years...it's a 2010."
Them: "Oh...I didn't know they made bikes like that"

Or like this:
"May I take a picture of your bike?" Which always ends up like this:
...although there was one time it turned into: